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The Portland, Maine, Police Department uploaded a video of the meteor to their Facebook page, where is has been viewed 757 thousand times already.

“The meteor (or alien spaceship) was caught on camera at approximately 0050 hours. Let’s hope the visitors are friendly. They could just be some of Stephen King’s friends on their way to visit him. Whomever they are I’m sure we could win them over with a whoopee pie,” read the caption to the Facebook post.

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You can very clearly hear a man say “Oh my God,” on the video, and he was later identified as Officer Hults, who was obviously startled by what he saw.

Meteors are actually fairly common, but because 75 percent of the Earth’s surface is water we have a slim chance of actually seeing them. Most meteors are too small to cause any real damage and simply burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere or bounce off and head back out into space.

There is very little need to worry about killer asteroids from outer space obliterating all life on Earth. NASA keeps track of most of those, and none of them are thought to be likely to come near Earth in the next several hundred years.

Aliens on the other hand … well that’s something we should all keep an eye out for. Even Donald Trump can’t build a wall to stop those.